As a traumatic journalist who witnessed the Hong Kong democratic protest and suppression from China, my camera saved me from time to time through recording activists’ imprisonment.
In the aftermath of the protest and under the pressure of the National Security Law imposed by China, Hong Kong youths faced prolonged imprisonment.
Monie was sentenced to 3 years and separated from her two-month-old baby; Pearlmi relentlessly waited for his boyfriend behind bars to return home, and at the same time demonstrated her resistance as an actress…..Criminal charges and imprisonment have changed the fate of an entire generation. During the 2019 social movement, 10,279 people were arrested, with 2,899 undergoing legal proceedings, and 80% were sentenced to imprisonment. A Thousand Winds transforms these numbers into human stories, portraying the suppression by the political regime and witnessing how women activists confront the test of their youth with courage, resilience, and unwavering truth.
Kwan Ling Mok is an award-winning journalist and documentary filmmaker from Hong Kong. She is a Knight Wallace Fellow 2023-2024, and The VII Foundation Film Lab fellow 2026-2027. She is now directing her debut feature, A Thousand Winds, which was a recipient of the Asian Network of Documentary Fund at the Busan International Film Festival, the Golden Horse Film Festival Project Promotion and Sheffield DocFest MeetMarket.